Since 2009, I’ve been maintaining the popular Facebook Privacy & Security Guide that has been used by several universities and government agencies as well as regular users of Facebook. If you’re not familiar with my guide, it’s a simple two page handout that walks you through recommended privacy and security settings for your Facebook profile.

The guide has been a labor of love but also required frequent updates since Facebook has drastically changed the privacy controls as well as the layout within the Facebook platform over the years. Needless to say it’s been tough to keep the guide updated and also tough to keep it to a single page so that it can be easily distributed. Today, I’m happy to announce that my company SecureState is now officially sponsoring the guide so that it can be maintained with frequent updates! Having said that, I’m announcing today the release of the fourth version of the Facebook Privacy & Security Guide, updated with the latest information on Facebook’s privacy and security settings. Please download and distribute to friends and family.

Also around the same time I started the guide, I started the Social Media Security website and podcast. The podcast is still being recorded monthly and co-hosted by myself and Scott Wright. Today we also released our 30th episode along with a website redesign for socialmediasecurity.com. I’d like to thank the podcast’s new sponsor SecureState for the new design and support of the podcast. Special thanks go to DigiP over at Tick Tock Computers for putting together a great site redesign and logo. I look forward to recording more podcasts and getting the word out on how to safely use social media!

This is the 25th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded July 1, 2011. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

Please send any show feedback to feedback [aT] socialmediasecurity.com or comment below. You can also call our voice mail box at 1-613-693-0997 if you have a question for our Q&A section on the next episode. You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunesand follow us on Twitter. Thanks for listening!

This is the 24th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded April 6, 2011. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright with special guest James Ruffer. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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This is the 23rd episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded February 25th, 2011. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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This is the 20th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded December 17th 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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This is the 20th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded November 5th 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

FireSheep – “Firefox plugin to pull active cookies from popular websites while using open wifi”.

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This is the 19th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded October 8, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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This is the 18th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded September 3, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright and is our 1 year anniversary episode! Thanks to everyone that has supported the podcast over the last year…we really appreciate it! Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

Please send any show feedback to feedback [aT] socialmediasecurity.com or comment below. You can also call our voice mail box at 1-613-693-0997 if you have a question for our Q&A section on the next episode. You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and follow us on Twitter. Thanks for listening!